The Burgh Laws Of Dundee

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Excerpt from Burgh Laws of Dundee: With the History, Statutes, and Proceedings of the Guild of Merchants and Fraternities of Craftsmen The earlier of the burgh laws, framed in a rude age, and for a primitive state of society having little claim to tion, are concise and significant. Some of them date back. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Burgh Laws Dundee: With the History, Statutes,& Proceedings, Guild of Merchants, Fraternities of Craftsmen To attain accuracy, an hour has often been occupied in transcribing a single line, and some lines have required several hours each to decipher them correctly. Mistakes are to be regretted, but I have done what I could to accomplish creditably what I had undertaken, and such errors as have been observed are corrected in a table of Errata. The old Laws and Statutes are in the old Scottish language. Many of the words are now obsolete, and some of them are provincialisms, or only applicable to the special Trades. Some of the entries have been inserted in the records by men with little learning, and the spelling is barbarous. The orthography of such entries might have been modernised, but in nearly all cases I preferred to give as literal copies as possible of the Laws and other documents inserted. In order that the Work may be intelligible to the general reader a Glossary has been given. I have to express my sincere thanks to the Officebearers and Clerks of the following Bodies, viz.: - The Guildry Incorporation; The Nine Incorporated Trades, individually and collectively; The Three United Trades, also individually and unitedly; and the Maltmen, for the ready and kind manner in which they gave me the use of the books and other documents in their possession, bearing on the object I had in view. Also, to the various gentlemen who cordially and politely gave me the loan of books and papers belonging to them, helpful to elucidate the work. But for the assistance and co-operation of these parties the volume would have been less complete, and to all of them I am greatly indebted for the hearty zeal with which they seconded my labours. The Volume has expanded to greater size than I expected, principally by the addition of the last Section on the Pendicles of the Guildry. I had not intended to include these, but have inserted them at the request of several of the members of these bodies. From this and various other causes, some of them perhaps unavoidable in such a work, its progress through the press has been much slower than I expected. I regret the delay, and apologise for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.